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  <h1>Ant View</h1>
  <p>The Ant view provides a place to view Ant buildfiles and makes it easy to execute a buildfile or a given target
  within a buildfile. You can add files to the view and expand buildfiles to reveal the targets defined within
  them.</p>
  <p>The pop-up menu for this view also allows you to open an editor on a buildfile, execute the selected target or
  buildfile, and configure the launch configuration used when executing.</p>
  <p>Like other views in the Workbench, the Ant view has its own toolbar. Toolbar buttons are provided for adding
  buildfiles to the view and for executing them.</p>
  <p>To add the Ant view to the current perspective, click <a class="command-link" href=
  'javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.views.showView(org.eclipse.ui.views.showView.viewId=org.eclipse.ant.ui.views.AntView)")'>
  <img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.svg" alt="command link"> <b>Window &gt; Show View &gt; Other...
  &gt; Ant &gt; Ant</b></a>.</p>
  <table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" summary="The commands available in the Ant View">
    <caption>
      Ant View Commands
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    <thead>
      <tr>
        <th width="1%" colspan="1" rowspan="1">
          <p>Command</p>
        </th>
        <th width="20%" colspan="1" rowspan="1">
          <p>Name</p>
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        <th colspan="1" rowspan="1">
          <p>Description</p>
        </th>
        <th width="15%" colspan="1" rowspan="1">
          <p>Availability</p>
        </th>
      </tr>
    </thead>
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        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left"><img src="../images/add_co.svg" alt=
        "Add Buildfiles view and context menu command"></td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Add Buildfiles</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Allows you to add buildfile(s) to the view.</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">View action and context menu</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left"><img src="../images/search.svg" alt=
        "Add Buildfiles with Search view toolbar command"></td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Add Buildfile with Search</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Allows you to add buildfile(s) to the view using searching
        tools.</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">View action</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left"><img src="../images/filter_internal_targets.svg" alt=
        "Hide Internal Targets view toolbar command"></td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Hide Internal Targets</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Allows you to hide / filter all internal targets from the view.</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">View action</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left"><img src="../images/run_exc.svg" alt=
        "Run Selected Target view toolbar command"></td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Run Selected Target</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Allows you to run the selected target in the view.</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">View action</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left"><img src="../images/remove_co.svg" alt=
        "Remove Selected Buildfile view toolbar and context menu command"></td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Remove Selected Buildfile</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Allows you to remove the selected buildfile from the view.</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">View action and context menu</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left"><img src="../images/removeall_co.svg" alt=
        "Remove All Buildfiles view toolbar and context menu command"></td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Remove All Buildfiles</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Allows you to quickly remove all buildfiles from the view.</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">View action and context menu</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left"></td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Open With &gt;</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Allows you to open an editor on the selected buildfile.</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Context menu</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left"><img src="../images/refresh_tab.svg" alt=
        "Refresh Buildfiles context menu command"></td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Refresh Buildfiles</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Refreshes the contents of the view to reflect the current state of
        all the represented buildfiles.</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Context menu</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left"><img src="../images/ant_view.svg" alt=
        "Run As &gt; Ant Build context menu command"></td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Run As &gt; Ant Build</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Launches an Ant build for the selected buildfile or for a specific
        selected target of the buildfile in Run mode.</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Context menu</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left"><img src="../images/ant_view.svg" alt=
        "Run As &gt; Ant Build... context menu command"></td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Run As &gt; Ant Build...</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Brings up the launch configuration dialog to edit the configuration
        associated with the selected buildfile in Run mode.</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Context menu</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left"><img src="../images/ant_view.svg" alt=
        "Debug As &gt; Ant Build context menu command"></td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Debug As &gt; Ant Build</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Launches an Ant build for the selected buildfile or for a specific
        selected target of the buildfile in Debug mode.</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Context menu</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left"><img src="../images/ant_view.svg" alt=
        "Debug As &gt; Ant Build... context menu command"></td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Debug As &gt; Ant Build...</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Brings up the launch configuration dialog to edit the configuration
        associated with the selected buildfile in Debug mode.</td>
        <td colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">Context menu</td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>
  <h3 class="related">Related concepts</h3><a href="../concepts/concepts-antsupport.htm">Ant support</a><br>
  <a href="../concepts/concepts-exttools.htm">External tools</a>
  <h3 class="related">Related tasks</h3><a href="../tasks/tasks-ant-running.htm">Running Ant buildfiles</a><br>
  <a href="../tasks/tasks-ant-classpath.htm">Modifying the Ant classpath</a><br>
  <a href="../tasks/tasks-ant-addtasksandtypes.htm">Adding new Ant tasks and types</a><br>
  <a href="../tasks/tasks-ant-version.htm">Using a different version of Ant</a>
  <h3 class="related">Related reference</h3><a href="ref-antruntimeprefs.htm">Ant runtime preferences</a><br>
  <a href="ref-anteditor.htm">Ant Editor</a><br>
  <a href="ref-anticons.htm">External Tools and Ant icons</a>
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